In this first-year seminar, students explore the written works that predate the ethnographic corpus - the total body of work assembled by anthropologists that seeks to describe the many different and diverse ways of being in this world that humans have configured. Students will commence with the journals and records of the travelers, writers, and thinkers that predated the formation of the discipline of anthropology. In the second portion of the semester, students will begin to read some of the earliest extant anthropological work. Students will assess the multiple disciplinary perspectives at work in both these periods, and will ponder the enduring issues that have long puzzled both anthropologists and cross-cultural travelers. Although global in scope, course readings will partly emphasize the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest. This seminar will provide an ideal entry point for career trajectories concerned with understanding and engaging with diversity in our modern world, and any career trajectory that might grapple with cultural difference on a global scale.
Connections 100 Level
Course UID
006687.1
Course Subject
Catalog Number
167
Long title
Anthropology, Culture, and Difference